He woke up with the sweat dripping down his face like a broken tap of water and panting heavily leaning on his both stretchy rubbery yet strong hands. After the slight ease of his breathing,he glanced around the surrounding while wiping his damp forehead,a smile blossomed on his still pale face at the sight of his crew sleeping and murmuring in their sleep. Wiping his sweaty hands on his blue short pants , his shoulder hunched in relief ...though it lasted for a second as he recalled his dream or nightmare

Everything was on fire , everywhere wherever his eyes followed it was fire except she was there standing in the middle of it .He was shouting ,beside him they were shouting too , if she heard him or them he didn't know but for a split of second she turned and as if sensing them her gaze found theirs and a smile ..a smile blossomed on her sweaty and bloody face . It wasn't a smile which big creepy monsters smile ..it wasn't a evil smile , like in the story his brother told him instead it was a smile only reserved for him and his brothers alone but that didn't last long as she whispered something ..he didn't know , he was too focused on shouting but for what ..it was all in vain as in another second she turned around and her eyes turned full of hate,pain,mirth,angst and what not , it shouldn't have been like that!! That face , that angry face didn't suit her ,she only looked good when she was smiling , so why ? why was it happening ?! she didn't deserved that .

It happened in slow motion one second she was looking at him and next second she turned around and the fire engulfed her and blood spilled around . Blood flew in all directions and there he was left wailing and flailing and crying . He heard the distinctive cries of his brother but that didn't matter she was there in fire , but as he tried to move around he couldn't , only to look ahead and watch that scene again and again ...

Sighing , he glanced around his surrounding again and climbed down his hammock and made his way towards the only door in the room to get out on the deck . Opening the door slowly while cringing at the creaking sound he looked out at the horizon . The night was still out and the moon has slightly shifted from it's position and there no sign of the morning to come around any sooner .

Taking a lump of fresh air ,closing the door while doing so he made his way towards his favourite spot in in the ship.Thumping of his footsteps covered the silence and he cautiously looked up to the crownest as he knew his loyal firstmate and his bestfriend would be there either napping or looking out like he is supposed to do or maybe he might be looking back at him too worriedly while having that scowl etched on his face which would have probably deepened (if it could any more ) and he would be tempting to choose to stay or question him like he was doing every night nowadays, afterall it wasn't a sudden occurence from his part to come out at night , he chuckled dryly at the thought , sometimes his crew worry too much. But he knew the swordsman would definitely choose the latter . Plopping in his favourite spot he adjusted his nowadays popular familiar strawhat and looked out towards the sea .

The nightmares were becoming frequent , Why? he didn't know. He thought he was over it but anything never goes as planned in his part. Every night he woke up in his own sweat,breathing and panting like no tommorow and every fucking day he have to pretend it didn't hurt !..though it was better his crew didn't know , they tend to get too worried.

It was frustrating of how ridiculous his situation was becoming , hadn't he stopped dreaming that long time ago?! It was so frustrating that the other day he end up almost killing the marine guy who decided that firing at his ship with those damn cannons was a very smart move, 'damn asshole!!' If his crew was shocked with his behaviour they hid it well , well who wouldn't be it wasn't in his nature to be up and just beat anyone till they end up being a bloody mess ,well their had been many times he did that like when he beat that 'long nose fish bastard' , and when he thrashed 'crocodile' all the way up the walls , oh and when he blasted the 'pigeon bastard' and when he ...ughhh never mind them that didn't count ,those bastard decided to hurt his friends so it was natural he acted that but when he haki fisted that marine bastard and made a bloody mess it was so not super as his shipwright liked to say as it put a huge dent to sunny 'sorry sunny!' . But that wasn't the point ,the point is that those fucking nightmare were showing once again and he just didn't knew how to cope with them.

He huffed out a sigh once again and looked out at the horizon once again calming his self down ,though his calm demeanor was broken as he heard shuffling of things and opening of the crownest's door ,soon light thumping of footsteps followed and slight clanking of metal filled the silence .He didn't need to look to tell who was it beside him as the said man crossed his arms and leaned against the railing looking at the horizon for a moment maybe argueing how to start the conversation.

As true to the luffy's musings the swordsman huffed out a sigh and glanced over his captain and decided to break the silence .

"Can't sleep?!" two words ,it was enough he told himself ,though he had too much on his head it was enough! ..Maybe today the boy would be willing to tell-

"yeah" Or maybe not..

Huffing out a sigh yet again , he clinged to the silence his captain has initiated..

Many things had changed since 2 years they have been apart. The crew hadn't gotten a day without having any work to do , though he had noticed and he was sure the crew too that the jovial boy who once used to hung around like a lunatic and smile like he didn't have a care in the world has matured , matured since he watched his crew dissapearing before his eyes , since his big brother ace was decided to be executed ,since he barged into the impel down ,since he took a part in one of the world's cruelest war ,since he saved his brother from the clutches of death and the flaming words and hands of the devils in desguise .It was like a switch has flipped on and his captain was not anymore the oblivious kid he was or maybe he was mature that time too but didn't like to show it , Zoro didn't know,what he knew was that he had promised that the failure he let happened won't happen in the near future ,but as he had promised didn't mean that he had become cruel ,he just had hardened himself after all he was the first mate of the crew it was his duty to take care of the crew when the captain couldn't . That's why he was second guessing himself if he had been to hard on the crew or the captain because thats the only reason he can come up with as why his captain couldn't look in his eyes and answer him honestly for once , because no matter what anyone say or no matter what he pretends to be he would always love his captain and his family though they didn't need to know that (that's embarrassing alright!).He was afraid that if he had been too cold that his own bestfriend couldn't look in his eyes and tell him ,though he knew that there are something's that should be left to as it is ,and he surely did left luffy to come around the edges but that's just not did it,instead he became more closed up .He still remember the first time it happened when the crew was sleeping and he had been on his watch meditating in the peace when he heard the deck's men's room door opening (being in high alert has its perks)and he sensed the boy coming out of room . Assuming that maybe it would have been for his late night stomach's craving he didn't thought to entertain the boy afterall who wants to deal with the crew's cooks tantrum ,but when he saw captain sitting on the ship head he should have known something was wrong ,assuming it was just his calm moments was so wrong. It happened again the other night ,then the other and then the next, why he knew because surprisingly a week after the incident there was the cook claiming there weren't the late night food raids the entire week , as an asshole he is chose to ignore it ,it happened many times but when he saw the captain again at night he was on watch he knew something was wrong. As the responsible firstmate he just like today went to question his captain just to get a big hollow smile from the captain and the boy slumping on his arms only to fell asleep right there .

He blinked and then blinked again and again and w-what the...

Like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK his captain,his idiot captain just smiled and apparently fell asleep on him, so when the next day when he saw his captain joyously stuff his face with meat and then running around in circle with chopper he was so not pleased. It wasn't like he didn't felt relieved that the idiot had been smiling and running ,he was just concerned,the same boy running around in the daylight was always looking pale fragile thing in the night sky. Apparently he wasn't the only one, the the ship's 'Ms I know everything' and the cook had catch up to the suspicious act too ,though this time the archeologist didn't know any better than the two of em'.

The actual surprise was then when the ship had been woken due to the Marines firing cannon at them in the middle of the night when luffy was on the watch. Oh how he had thanked his old self that he chose to be on the boy's side , the look on his face was terrifying and that's saying something for the man who's not even afraid of whatever god's are there in the world, and by the looks of it his crew were terrified too but as they are they hid it too well even Chopper, Ussop and Nami too. The captain has haki fisted the bastard and kept going on until the other one couldn't even lift a finger and threw him in the water. That had been the last straw of the crew's patience, patience of waiting ,pretending not to know , they knew something was wrong with the captain after all to the contrary's belief they might insult him but they loved him nonetheless. Since that day whenever the captain had came outside someone is always there to be at his side just waiting for him to say something but the stubborn idiot hadn't budged form his one word replies.

He was brought out from his musings when he felt a gush of wind on his face and he again looked at the boy sitting next to him looking like a fragile doll that has seen the whole world at just the age of 19. As if sensing the gaze on him the said boy turned to him and stretched a beautiful yet somewhat dim smile on his face and just as he was gonna say something -

"Thankyou Zoro"

the idiot broke the silence by just 2 words and upped himself and went towards the men's room to sleep or who knows what. Not knowing what he should say he just went on with a simple "Night cap'n" and turned towards him and catched a glimpse of a smile on his captain's face and a cheerful "good night" followed after.

After hearing the distinctive click of the door indicating it had been shut up he again turned and looked towards the horizon.

The sun has started to peek out and soon the cook would be up and preparing the breakfast. Breaking out of his demeanor he sighed yet again ,just how many times had he sighed? yeah too many times. He just hopes the boy would come around quickly as it was hard to admit but he surely missed the boy's charming smile which can lit up the whole world and which doesn't stop a fluttering of pride and warmth creeping up in his chest and warm his cold stone heart as people likes to say but that didn't matter afterall there's a reason he follow that man.

"Might as well go to sleep"

Yawning rather loudly and stretching his hand be made his way up to the crownest to resume the watch out shift for who knows how long ,and maybe he could get a power nap afterwards afterall he won't get any rest when they reached the island that he could see now a little peek of it surely as the witch had predicted.

What he didn't knew that this island would change the whole course of their journey.


Hush done with the prologue !..

This is the note

Dear viewers and readers,

This is my first fanfic on one piece might as well enjoy it . Oh and as you know that Ace and whitebeard won't be dead in this fic...just cause well this a fanfic about asl's sister so no ..maybe sabo won't be losing his memory ..tell me in the review if you want sabo's memory gone or not?!..yeah ..

Damn! if feels like I'm writing a letter lol!..

This is just the prologue,GUYZzz..

~HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE FIC~